The Culture Map by Erin Meyer was a book I decided to read during my very brief stint working for Nokia in the summer of 2020. It was there that I witnessed the widest array of cultures and nationalities coming together. From east to west, coworkers from China, India, Poland, Germany, France, and the United…
Category: books
My Vacation Reading
For the past three years, I’ve had a vacation custom of reading one full book, cover to cover, during that particular trip. This probably doesn’t sound that significant to most of you, but I’m not a speed reader. I’m not really a fast reader, either. I do alright gluing my syllables together, and usually, speed…
The Books Movie
I absolutely love books and yet I’ve never been one to love to read. Does that make sense? Most of what I love about books has recently been summarised in a YouTube video by Max Joseph, a filmmaker who hits my view of books right on the head. The video in question is linked below,…
Morning Routine
I started this blog entry by researching all sorts of laws of occurrence and repeatability and about thirty minutes into it I lost track of what I wanted to say while staring at a page for the Laws of the Mind… What I wanted to write about today was my new morning routine. For the…
Book Review – Ready Player One
I’m not entirely sure why I picked up Ready Player One. I’m not a sci-fi geek, I’m not into fantasy, and having just finished two fiction books I was hoping to get through a biography while on our vacation this past week. But after reading just a few pages of Ready Player One, I was…
Book Review – How We Got to Now
I am writing this post in the comfort of my home, with a small desk lamp providing ambient light while drinking a cappuccino, listening to Spotify tracks on my home audio, all before getting to work on time. Completely unaware of what it took, technology wise, to allow me to have this moment. First, desk…
Shoe Dog – Book Review
Nike is a huge. Today no one would ever question the might that Nike has in the shoe business, or in the sports industry in general. Nike, just do it! Micheal Jordan, Tiger Woods, just a couple of super stars we automatically associate with the Nike swoosh. But do you know where the idea of…
Elon Musk: an Audiobook Review
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future Elon Musk needs no introduction. A boy genius turned real life Tony Stark of Iron Man. That’s how he’s portrayed in this book anyway, and with actual proof to support it, too. At 13 hours and 24 minutes, this audiobook…
Book Review – The Third Wave
Listened to: June, 2016 I came across this book as it was pretty heavily recommended by a few sites I happened to stumble upon about a month ago. The third wave is…well, you gotta read it first I suppose. But the basic idea is that we take for granted technology that was very much unheard…
The Polish Magician 